Three days ago, in school, Home economics lesson took place. What we did that day was to bake! No... we were not baking a cake or a muffin, but we were baking cookies! It was really fun! The good thing was we were working in pairs, so we can split the work up. Even so, me and my pair, Jun Rong were not able to finish in time, so we had to stay back for another 20 minutes so as to finish the whole process. The whole process got everyone working at their fastest speeds! First, we had to collect all ingredients necessary for the cookies. Next, we had to whisk everything slowly, adding each ingredient one at a time, first was the butter, then the sugar, beaten egg, flour, peanut butter, and lastly, the vanilla essence. The teacher did say that we only add milk when our mixture is too dry. Lucky for us, our cookie mixture was only a little bit dry, so the teacher said we do not need to put in milk. But, the work was not over yet, the worst had just arrived. The torturous mixture had to be shaped on the tray! So, Jun Rong and I started working on the shapes. We had to make all the cookies uniform in shape and size. Well.... that is what the teacher said. Unfortunately, whenever we try flattening the cookies for uniform height, the sides of the cookies kept cracking every time! After a few tries, I finally found a method to stop these cracks. This method was to make the first shape, then flatten the cookies, then shape them once more to remove the cracks. This method actually works, so those reading my blog right now can try this method when you are baking cookies the next time. After the final few shapes, we shoved the cookies into the oven and waited for 15 minutes. As time passed, Jun Rong and I went around the class to try other classmates' cookies which were already done baking. All of their cookies tasted great, which is what I expected since all of them said they got 14 and a half marks out of 15 marks. 15 minutes passed fast and soon, we could take out the cookies. But, to our horror, The cookies had cracks all over them and the best cookie still had at least 7 cracks! When the teacher tasted it, she noticed that the insides of the cookies were still quite soft and the thing she said to us was, "Your cookies are a little bit undercooked." Don't feel bad for us just yet. The teacher recorded our scores down on the results paper, and to our joy, she still gave us 14 marks! This is only half a mark away from our friends! The teacher said that the only thing wrong with our cookies are the tremendous amount of cracks on them, but the undercooked matter was fine. This goes to show Home Economics has no right or wrong. They judge you on how the food was made, and not how the end product is like. Please enjoy this funny, 1 minute rap on cookies by the one and only cookie monster:
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